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🎶 For a choir 🎵 A hymn tune
choral

choral

1 7.6
A hymn tune used in some Christian churches and often sung by a choir
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔrəl/
translation icon : coral
  • The congregation sang a beautiful choral arrangement during the Sunday service.

Examples

  • The choral music resonated through the hall, captivating everyone in attendance.

  • Our instances are are simply forms of this choral music.

  • Middle school choral teachers can meet the vocal and developmental needs of young adolescents by adapting traditional choral.

    Academic text (2009)

  • I observed and interviewed eight cooperating teachers who taught in urban, suburban, and rural schools; their jobs included work in K-12 choral.

    Academic text (2006)

  • They performed an uplifting choral piece that filled the church with harmony.

Synonyms

chorale
vschoral
5 8.3

A church hymn tune often sung in Lutheran services

is identical in meaning but represents an alternative written form

Compounds

choral ode
  • Literature
9.9

A song sung by the chorus in Greek plays to comment on the action

How Large

oratorio
  • Specialized
3 8.8
cantata
  • Specialized
4 8.2
choral
1 7.6
song
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

choral singular
chorals plural

Etymology

Choral as a noun comes from the same root choros and later from the German word Choral, which meant a 'church hymn' or hymn tune, and it shares that root with choir and chorus. That's why a choral is a stately hymn tune often sung by a choir.